Word: voids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writers of the dissent do not see "any great moral or philosophical issue in registration." This is so only if one sees action as divorced from intent, void of all meaning beyond immediate effects. Registration is not, as they term it, merely "filling out a postcard." Nor are conscientious objection and "alternative service" acceptable options for those of us who have renounced any and all acts which imply our consent to kill another human being, either personally or as party to the government bureaus in the business of killing human beings...
...positive step, and one which other colleges have taken, would be to guarantee in-house loans or grants to the nonregistered students whom the law would affect. It is up to the University, now discussing its response to the law, to fill the financial void. By supplying such funds. Harvard need not make a political statement against registration; it would merely reaffirm its current policy of supplying all aid a student needs, regardless of how much of that money comes from outside sources...
...MOST INSISTENT presence in Marcc Bellocchio's Leap Into the Void is the director himself. He is almost tangibly there in the background of each heavily symbolic scene, shaking a first at reality. All too often, however, one also suspects that he is biting his thumb at the audience. It is not that he refuses to communicate. The themes--madness and sanity, meaning versus nihilism--present themselves at every turn. It's just that their hammering symbolism and anti-realism become tedious after a while. The director, it seems, is almost coercing one to interpret first, watch later. But unless...
...skillfully crafted. The final glimpse, in which the 'symbolic children,' donning bowler hats and other adult clothes prance to a sentimental tune played on the familiar piano, haunts as a danse macabre. But even if a metaphor superimposed upon another should create an interesting metaphor for the ever-central void, the concept cannot sustain interest for all that long. Whatever its merits, the piece is likelier to clicit a perturbed yawn than a leap of any sort...
...bolder in both the 50 and 100 free, has been out most of the season with a nagging shoulder injury and probably won't see any action. But Bernal said he is confident senior Jim Cartone, Junior Bob Tyler and sophomores Bob Hrabchak and Matt Davis can fill the void...